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After fueling youth culture with an endless variety of vice, Jesse Pearson launches his higher-minded magazine, Apology.<p>Jesse Pearson is super pretentious. Pearson, the founder and editor of <i>Apology Magazine</i>, a 256-page quarterly that will be sold at bookstores, museum shops, and online starting …

We may be technologically capable of broad in-flight connectivity. The question is whether we want to take advantage of it.<p>Here is a phrase that you may no longer be hearing on airplanes: "Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff."<p>For most harried air travelers, good riddance. The need …

The surveillance age is here, and it’s tough not to feel a bit helpless about it.<p>With cameras pinned to buildings, embedded in smartphones, and floating in the sky, it’s impossible to imagine going outside and not being photographed at every turn. And the rise of Google Glass will only make it …

It is easier than you might think for kids to make their own video games. Gamestar Mechanic is a great web based place for younger children to start. Kodu, Gamemaker, and Scratch all offer simple interfaces for more experienced kids.<p>When kids design their own video games, they are engaged in …

A startup called August says its initial product, the “Smart Lock,” has attracted some 26,000 reservations in the last two months. According to August CEO, Jason Johnson, the company will start shipping the device later this year and is lining up distribution deals with online retailers, security …

Pancreatic cancer 's high death rate is partly blamed on the difficulty of early detection. Teenage scientist Jack Andraka has come up with a cheap and simple way to test for it.<p>Pancreatic cancer is a killer – and one that is very hard to detect. One of the reasons its survival rate is so poor that …

What does it take to get power and data to a one of a kind piece of art in the San Francisco Bay Area? Hundreds of feet of cable, racks of servers and switches, and thousands of programmable LED lights. We take a look at the network infrastructure behind The Bay Lights.

<b>ADELAIDE, Australia – July 9, 2013 —</b> Flinders University, a leading Adelaide-based academic institution with almost 22,000 students and nearly 2,000 staff, is partnering with Cisco and Dimension Data to build a next-generation campus network that will deliver a world-class learning experience for …

Founded in 1944, the World Bank is, as its name alludes to, a global financial institution geared towards reducing poverty in developing countries.<p>But as with many pre-Internet organizations, transitioning from the analog world order into one fit for the digital age is something of a challenge.<p>As …

After Samsung's latest product push in London, we have nothing short of a Galaxy S 4 franchise on our hands. While the company unveiled its expected Mini version along with a photography-focused variant, it also took a step in the rugged-device direction by announcing the Galaxy S4 Active. With …